Recording ingeneer: Lionel Darenne Unregular special guests: Xabier iriondo (2004), Argilla (2002/03)
ALSO PFE "Deaf sun / Deaf blues"
is a special live project by
OM (music) with Andrea Bernabini (video)
[ deaf sun / deaf blues
live at santarcangelo international
festival of the arts, 2006]
Influences
"My computer had one of these and i lost six years of words, photos, drawings and correspondence in a breath. It was like dying and being reborn but without the gooey organic stuff. If this sounds anything like that, it'll change your f..k..ng like" . . . . / Pfe by popMontreal fest, 2005 sept
Sounds Like
Some reviews → Arte 2005/01 by Matthias Schneider
DISQUE DE LA SEMAINE "Entre Free Rock et Post-Jazz" Quand l'epoque est aux supports numeriques, le rare plaisir tactile que procure une couverture de CD surprend agreablement. Permanent Fatal Error fait plus, son "Deaf Blues" est epoustouflant. Permanent Fatal Error vient d'Italie, le createur du groupe et son leader est Olivier Manchion, un gaillard plutot remuant initiateur de projets divers et guitariste du groupe culte italien, Ulan Bator. Parti d'un projet solo, il aboutit avec l'aide de trois autres musiciens à un projet de groupe. Le quartet, comme en temoigne le titre "Law Speed", joue avec les lois de la vitesse, ou pour parler en musicien, avec les tempi. Avec la virtuosite de Tortoise, le son limpide et appuy de Shellac et une celebration de la lenteur dans le style de Slint, Permanent Fatal Error evolue elegamment entre le rock instrumental, la guitare et le jazz. Quand les autres groupes instrumentaux se perdent force de vouloir trop jouer et compliquent en vain leurs compositions, PFE reussit donner chacune de ses pistes une aura inoubliable. Depuis longtemps on n'avait compose ni interprete de musique aussi finement dessinee, aussi incandescente et variee que ce que nous offre Permanent Fatal Error."
→ ReR Megacorp 2004 by Chris Cutler "Another CD from Wallace, who seem to have uncovered a hidden Valley full of groups that play instruments and remind one of the attitude (though not necessarily the music) of the best of the early 70s experimentalists. Here Bass, 2 Guitars and Drums evolve a slow, minimal, rhythmically centred - Faust meets the Necks - programme that is both unusual and assured. Interesting."
→ Magic! n.88. 2005/03 by Michael Patin "Pour un certain nombre d'amateurs de rock underground, le nom d'Olivier Manchion est un prcieux sesame. Ancien bassiste et cofondateur de Ulan Bator, ce Francais exil en Italie y serait pour beaucoup dans la russite artistique des premiers albums du trio. Ceux-ci retrouveront avec plaisir ce fidle ami de l'ombre, en pleine force de l'age, menant avec serenite ses troupers au sein de l'entreprise Permanent Fatal Error. L'homme n'a pas mis au panier sa tete chercheuse, ici au service d'un post-folk evolutif et reveu. "LawSpeed" est avant tout un disque cerebral, qui supporte mal une ecoute fragmentee, Preferant les trajectoires sinusoidales aux lignes droites, manchion et ses acolytes elaborent des structures en mouvement avec une precision quasi clinique. tel un Mogwai sans sucre ou un Bstrd revenu des enfers, Permanent Fatal Error petrit delicatement sa matiere premiere pour offrir chaque note un large espace d'expression, sans toutefois comprometttre l'harmonie d'ensemble. de cet album bati sur du sable on retiendra l'ascension rythmique lancinante de LowLawSpeed, ou encore l'irruption d'une trompette funambule sur B..Side, qui evoque les premiers pas de CAN. Ce n'est d'ailleurs pas un hasard si Olivier Manchion accompagne aujourd'hui Damo Suzuki, chaman historique du groupe allemand, lors de ses folles prestations sceniques. Il est un monde soutterain ou' cette rencontre se devait d'advenir."
→ Musicboom 2004 by Alex Franquelli "Conoscevo gli Ulan Bator ed intuivo un forte legame con la melodia, con le propensioni acustiche ed i riflessi armonici propri dell'intimismo che riesce a sfuggire ogni definizione se non quella dell'effetto che scatena, dell'enfasi positiva propria dei suoni dalle frequenze della musicalit pi vera e calda. Intuivo tutto ci ma le mie orecchie non lo sentivano, i suoni sfuggivano fisicamente a queste connotazioni e mi perdevo nello sperimentalismo evoluto di un trio dalla chimica difficilmente ripetibile. Dietro i toni pi bassi c'era Oliver Manchion ed il suo dinamismo sempre un passo entro l'avanguardia; una ricerca assidua del ritmo al di fuori delle sue costanti e delle rette logiche. Oggi lo ritroviamo dietro i Permanent Fatal Error a curarne i tratti meno ruvidi, le sonorizzazioni elettriche hanno lasciato il passo ad armonizzazioni concentriche che riportano ai Karate, al krautrock e ad alcuni accenni di jazz (soprattutto in un brano come B..side_part2 in pratica il "centro" di una trilogia compositiva). Il respiro lento e cupo, quasi nervosamente scarno, greve per tutta la durata del lavoro e trova il suo apice nella bellissima Low.Law.Speed, nei suoi ricami acustici che sembrano evocare la seguente, altrettanto affascinante Sunflowers forse la pi "canzone", la meno evoluta del lotto ma al tempo stesso l'elemento che richiama maggiormente gli anni '70, certe atmosfere la Delirium. solo l'anticamera del quasi-silenzio di Deaf Blues, della sua non-forma che si sviluppa naturale nella conclusiva Treep: un insieme etereo e mistico che racchiude in s lo spirito di questo album indeciso, atipico, speciale e pieno di riferimenti importanti al pensiero, all'avanguardia pi dolce e a quella vibrazione che ha sempre vissuto nascosta tra le pieghe sonore di onde basse e calde e solo ora pu uscire a respirare da sola in un sogno magnetico di intime riflessioni."
→ Koelner 2004/11 by Christian Meyer PLATTE DES MONATES "FEHLERKORREKTUR" Das italienische Quartett verbindet minimalistischen Post-Rock mit improvisierten Jazz-Passagen : PostRock Olivier Manchion hatte bereits zusammen mit der Band Ulan Bator mehrere Alben eingespielt, bevor er sein Soloprojekt Permanent Fatal Error um den Gitarristen Giulio Vetrone, den Bassisten Nicolas Marmin und den Schlagzeuger Francesco Billt erweiterte und das erste Album "Law Speed" aufnahm. Komponiert sind die Stcke nach wie vor alle (einzige Ausnahme ist die Gemeinschaftskomposition "Nord") von Manchion, wobei deren Aufbau auch auf einige improvisatorische Freiheiten schlieen lsst. Die elf Tracks des Albums unterscheiden sich deutlich voneinander, allerdings findet man diese Unterschiede auch innerhalb der Stcke. Grundlegend fr die meisten Songs ist das stoische Schlagzeug, das weit im Vordergrund steht, aber nur ein rhythmisches Moment neben vielen ist. hnlich wie bei den langen Minimal-Stcken der legendren letzten TalkTalk-LP "Laughing Stock" schrauben sich die Stcke gleichmig im rhythmischen Einklang von Gitarre und Schlagwerk den Hhepunkten entgegen. Doch sind Permanent Fatal Error deutlicher interessiert an dramaturgischen Wendungen, Breaks, die in vllig andere Richtungen berleiten: Pltzlich tauchen da leise gezupfte Gitarrenparts aus den anschwellenden Stcken auf, brechen sich jazzige Blserpassagen Bahn oder stren dezente Umweltgerusche. Die gesamte Platte ist voller berraschender Wendungen. Das lsst wiederum mehr an das Flaggschiff des Post-Rock Tortoise denken und die Kombination dessen mit jazzigen Passagen kennt man von dem The-Notwist-Seitenprojekt Tied + Tickled Trio. Damit befinden sich Permanent Fatal Error in guter Gesellschaft. All diese Bands waren und sind interessiert an einer Verbindung von Aspekten der Minimal Music mit Jazz und Rock. Genau dies machen Permanent Fatal Error auf "Law Speed", einer Platte, die virtuos und in atemberaubend reinem Klang spielerisch Kontinuitt und Bruch miteinander abwechseln lsst und dabei doch ein homogenes Ganzes sprbar macht."
"we're a living soundtrack band
we're playing and singing
we're playing rock with acoustic guitars
we're playing rock with electronics
we're deafblues"
..>
PERMANENT FATAL ERROR (PFE) exists since 2002. Olivier Manchion is ULAN BATOR founder member.
Main collaboration with FAUST, DAMO SUZUKI'S NETWORK, FRENCH DOCTORS, BIAS! ...
"PFE is a kind of non-solo project I've started late 2001, few months after leaving Paris for Italy, at the end of ego:echo tour: the end of "my" ULAN BATOR (though we performed together again from late 2005 to spring 2007). PFE was officially presented as Olivier with Giulio C. Vetrone (Halftones, Nada...), Francesco Billét (Cut, Super Argo...) and Nicolas Marmin (Aka_Bondage, Colder...) in Torino at Docks Dora, early 2002, thanks to my dear Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo aka (r), aka Larsen.
We've toured as a band from 2002 to early 2005. For the late'05 shows I toured as "PFE solo" or "duo" (with Giulo C.Vetrone) but everybody's fine, there are new excellent members (Franck Lantignac -Ulan Bator!-, Seb Martel, Nicholas Thomas) and PFE will be back early 2008.
"LAW SPEED" , FIRST ALBUM of the new PFE project was released (CD) between 2004 and 2005 by 3 labels: WALLACE RECORDS (It), H.J.Irmler's (Faust) KLANGBAD (ger/uk) and RUMINANCE (fr/jap). It's been recorded in the mountains near Reggio Emilia (Italy) at Urs Studio, taped and mixed by Lionel Darenne with Simone Filippi and myself, for 11 days, a to z. The musicians are Giulio C. Vetrone (guitar, arrangements..), Billét (drums, shalala..), and Aka_bondage (some bass and electronics). I play acoustic guitars, various key with effects, bass, etc..and most of all composed the stuff. A brilliant opera for 3 fingers.
In the meantime, in 2003 and 2004 I've toured a bit with DAMO SUZUKI (CAN), in France, as part of the "French doctors collective" ("Hollyaris" 45/indigo, live in Paris.).. and introduced him in Italy for a tour in late 2003, inviting people from Larsen, Zu, Starfuckers, Uncode Duello... to join the party.
From june 2005 to june 2006, after our "Collective Metz" (or "Faust incl.Ulan Bator") in 1996/97 -just released now by the way-, the nice story with FAUST has restarted. We toured the UK (see ...In autumn recent release), and performed also in Sicily (Catania), France (Lyon nuits sonores festival and Villette Sonique fest. in Paris).
Late 2004 started a collaboration/duo with Xabier Iriondo entitled BIAS!. A first strange EP was released by Wallace records later the same year.
From september 2005 to may 2007, I also restarted to perform with ULAN BATOR. The first months we've even been the "original trio" (Cambuzat/Manchion/Lantignac) and toured Italy and Sloveny early 2006. Then later with the new drummer Alessio Goffredi. In the mean time also some improvized gigs with Amaury, as a duo entitled "CARGO CULTE"
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PERMANENT FATAL ERROR's "LAW SPEED" , FIRST ALBUM of the new PFE project was released (CD) between 2004 and 2005 by 3 labels: WALLACE RECORDS (It), H.J.Irmler's (Faust) KLANGBAD (ger/uk) and RUMINANCE (fr/jap). It's been recorded in the mountains near Reggio Emilia (Italy) at Urs Studio, taped and mixed by Lionel Darenne with Simone Filippi and myself, for 11 days, a to z. The musicians are Giulio C. Vetrone (guitar, arrangements..), Billét (drums, shalala..), and Aka_bondage (some bass and electronics). I play acoustic guitars, various key with effects, bass, etc..and most of all composed the stuff. A brilliant opera for 3 fingers.
A NEW ALBUM WILL BE RECORDED IN JANUARY 2008
* * * * * OLIVIER MAIN DISCOGRAPHY * * * * *
to be released
2008 PERMANENT FATAL ERROR NEW ALBUM
released
→ 2007 ULAN BATOR ulaanbaatar, 1993-98 unreleased - cd [jestrai, ruminance]
→ 2007 FAUST ... in autumn"- box 3cds+1dvd, uk tour 2005 [dirter]
→ 2005 FAUST / COLLECTIF METZ s/t- box 4cds [art-errorist]
→ 2005 FAUST connections - dvd [mopvisioni]
→ 2005 BIAS! s/t ep - cd [wallace records]
→ 2005 DAMO SUZUKI'S NETWORK hollyaris - live 2cds [45]
→ 2004 PERMANENT FATAL ERROR law speed - cd [wallace, klangbad, ruminance]
→ 2002 ULAN BATOR ok:ko demo+live cd [ursula minor]
→ 2000 ULAN BATOR echo5 45rpm [ruminance]
→ 2000 ULAN BATOR ego:echo - cd prod michael gira [ygr, sonica, dsa]
→ 2000 ULAN BATOR d-construction - ep cd remixs [dsa]
→ 1998 ULAN BATOR vegetale album cd [dsa]
→ 1996 ULAN BATOR ursula minor 45rpm [popov]
→ 1996 ULAN BATOR 2 degrees ep cd [dsa]
→ 1995 ULAN BATOR s/t album cd [dsa]
feat. olivier
→ 2007 FAUST trial and error - dvd [45]
→ 2000 HELDON only chaos is real - 2cds [wagram]
2008 JUN 06 FR CLERMONT-FERRAND (FR) europavox fest
2008 MAY 07 FR LYON (FR) nuits sonores fest
2008 MAY 06 FR GRENOBLE (FR) la bobine
2008 FEB 02 IT CAVRIAGO (RE) calamita
2007 MAR 30 IT (solo+video) RAVENNA t.rasi nobodaddy fest "deaf sun/deaf blues"
2006 JUL 10 IT (solo+video) SANTARCANGELO fest "deaf sun/deaf blues"
2005 DEC 10 IT BOLOGNA underground rec, showcase
2005 DEC 03 IT (solo) BRESCIA freemuzik + legendary pink dots
2005 DEC 02 IT (solo) RECANATI/An against aids
2005 DEC 01 IT (solo) ANCONA Thermos . against aids, +frenki frenki
2005 NOV 13 IT (solo) REGGIO EMILIA aquario 16 + arto lindsay
2005 NOV 12 CH (solo) LUZERN treibhaus + s.guest a.cambuzat
2005 NOV 07 UK (solo) LONDON scala +the living Jarboe +j.Broadrick/jesus
2005 NOV 06 FR (solo) PARIS nouveau casino + the living Jarboe
2005 OCT 16 IT (solo) TORINO cafe procope + akron family-angels of light
2005 SEP 30 CAN (duo) MONTREAL popMontreal festival + deerhunter
2005 SEP 24 IT (duo) MONZA libreria acustica + s.guest a.cambuzat
2005 SEP 16 DE (solo) SCHIPHORST fiestaval: +hayward +cutler..
2005 AUG 03 IT (solo) PESCARA codice a bar
2005 APR 08 FR CHAMBERY locaux larsen
2005 APR 07 FR REIMS crous/mjc claudel + poney club
2005 JAN 19 IT (trio) BOLOGNA club 74
2004 NOV 11 FR METZ ochs, musiques volantes +daniel padden
2004 NOV 10 FR PARIS point ephemere, musiques volantes +daniel padden
2004 SEP 26 IT MEZZAGO (MI) wallace festival
2004 MAY 06 IT ANCONA / It @ Thermos (+ Polvere)
2004 MAR 07 IT SCHIO /It (Vi) Csc
2004 MAR 06 IT MILANO /It Cox18
2004 MAR 05 IT BOLOGNA /It TPO + Argilla.Project
2004 MAR 03 IT REGGIO EMILIA /It Lab.Aq16
2004 MAR 02 IT MASSA /It TagoMago
2004 FEB 24 IT CASALPUSTERLENGO-Mi /It Teatro festival Ozona
2003 DEC 11 FR PARIS /Fr Nouveau Casino +Damo Suzuki's Network + Whitehouse
2003 MAY 22 FR MONTREUIL Instants Chavires incl.video by Argilla
2003 MAY 18 IT TRENTO Angi Club incl. video by Argilla
2003 MAY 14 IT REGGIO EMILIA Maffia incl.video by Argilla
2002 MAY 11 IT REGGIO EMILIA Maffia
2002 FEB 14 IT TORINO Docks Dora / officine Tv
PERMANENT FATAL ERROR
2004 / Metz, festival Musiques Volantes
PERMANENT FATAL ERROR
2004 / A-Pic video by aka_bondage
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